Fairfield University News

When Ansonia Mayor Jim Della Volpe was first elected to office about 10 years ago, he quickly learned there was a huge difference between being a mayoral candidate and an actual mayor.

Crisis negotiation is one of law enforcement's most effective tools. There are tens of thousands of standoffs with police each year.

What is stuffed with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese and smells and tastes like a traditional pizza pie, but isn't? It's called a pizza super -- an Italian sandwich containing pizza crust on the top as well as the bottom, said Bobby Giagkos, owner of Mike's Pizza, located next to the Fresh Market in Westport.

It probably doesn't come as a shock to learn that the average Fairfield County resident is white, relatively wealthy and well-educated. But it might come as a surprise to learn that the typical county resident doesn't carpool -- not very responsible, as it takes the average commuter 28.3 minutes to get to work.

Less than seven weeks before 100-plus minors were nabbed inside Bravo on Oct. 20, Fairfield police briefed the bar's owner and bouncers on what to be looking for in fake IDs.

The hearing was expected to take hours, but lasted only minutes. Rather than press their request to have Douglas Perlitz released on $5 million bond and into the custody of a dozen Fairfield residents, his lawyers withdrew their bid Wednesday.

While awaiting his likely arrest, a Connecticut man charged with sexually assaulting boys at the internationally recognized charity he founded for orphans in Haiti tried to buy off his victims and otherwise thwart an investigation of his conduct, federal authorities say.

The issue: Some residents of the Fairfield beach area complained to town officials that a public parking lot in a town park on Reef Road had been converted into overnight, overflow parking for Fairfield University parties and for over-inhabited, student-occupied rental property.

The former Fairfield man accused of molesting Haitian street orphans at a charity he established to help them will remain in jail indefinitely after his plan to post bond today was withdrawn.

There's a new Anastasi at City Hall Annex, although some confusion surrounds how he landed the job.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz will appear at Fairfield University Monday at 8 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

In 2006, Solomon Boyd was sentenced to 50 years in prison murdering someone in Norwalk several years prior to his conviction.

Undercover officials, performing random sweeps, found more than 100 underage drinkers in a Connecticut bar.

About 300 people, most of them students from high schools and colleges in the region, got a glimpse of how the state Supreme Court operates at a rare session conducted on the road at Fairfield University.

A bar in Fairfield was found to have more than 100 underage drinkers during a sweep by police Tuesday.

An exhibit of research drawings of Athens' ancient Parthenon by Fairfield University art historian and archaeologist Katherine Schwab will be featured Tuesday through Nov.

This is the self-proclaimed Year of Activism at Fairfield University. Along with planned programs and fund-raisers on issues of fair trade and peace, students at Fairfield this month generated outrage over an issue closer to home: a satirical column in the student newspaper that poked fun at female students who agree to one-night stands.

"I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' " and other hits from George Gershwin's great folk opera Porgy and Bess bounced off the walls of the dining room at the Senior Center the other day as 70 packed in for a helping of jazz.

Standing in the cold rain Thursday at the entrance to the Fairfield University campus, two members of SNAP -- Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests -- called on the Jesuits and Catholic diocese to seek out and offer help to alleged abuse victims of Douglas Perlitz and the Rev.

Want to get the wild taste of the craziness of Rick Miller ? Go to youtube and type in "Rick Miller" and "Bohemian Rhapsody." Miller will be performing his solo show, "MacHomer" at Fairfield University's Quick Center in a week from from Friday, on Oct.